Scientists confirm Zealandia, Earth's eighth continent, submerged almost two million square miles, with only 5% above water.

At Utah State University, researchers are using a radical idea known as the holographic principle to bridge the gap. By ...

Greek intellectuals in the ancient library of Alexandria made a profound contribution to science and several other ...

Earth may not have seven continents after all. From the earliest of grades, schoolchildren around the world have memorized ...

A team of international astronomers led by Richard Teague, the Kerr-McGee Career Development Professor in the Department of ...

For more than two thousand years, people have mapped the stars. But a new study claims one of the world’s oldest surviving ...

But from the 1500s onward, European sailing maps, inspired by Ptolemy’s grid design ... approximating the Earth in a more familiar way, slightly flattened at the poles and bulging at the ...

Unfortunately, no original copies of Ptolemy’s map have survived ... This mimics the curvature of the Earth, allowing navigators to plot a straight course on a single compass bearing.

A new leak for in-development content for the popular multiplayer game reveals the first Super Earth map for the game, but it’s not the urban environment many have been hoping for. Leaked by ...

Short for light detection and ranging, this remote sensing method can map the Earth’s topography with ... better known today as Ptolemy, used latitude and longitude lines to partition the ...

Explore the Sunderland Collection’s stunning maps ... of the Earth and stars for centuries, documenting their explorations in stunning and varied ways. Egyptian scholar Claudius Ptolemy ...